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YouTube video by Antony Loewenstein The Antony Loewenstein Podcast: What the Media Won't Say About The Israeli President's Visit

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Majority of MSPs back bid to end ‘Scottish energy bill rip-off’ A MAJORITY of MSPs – including the First Minister – have backed a campaign calling for an end to rip-off energy bills in Scotland.

A majority of MSPs – including the First Minister – have backed a campaign calling for an end to rip-off energy bills in Scotland.

“… not one unionist politician has signed the petition … despite thousands of emails from their constituents urging them to act.”

UK companies breaking Equality Act over use of Nimbus Disability Access Cards What sort of world are we living in when companies force disabled people to carry the Nimbus card to prove they're disabled enough?

UK companies breaking Equality Act over use of Nimbus Disability Access Cards

What sort of world are we living in when companies force disabled people to carry the Nimbus card to prove they're disabled enough? @wordsbyhg.bsky.social knows...
www.thecanary.co/uk/2026/02/1...

Help Minneapolis Get a Nobel Peace Prize Students protest against ICE during a walkout at the University of Minnesota, on January 26, 2026 (Brandon Bell / Getty Images) The editors of The Nation are formally nominating the city of Minneapo...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Help Minneapolis Get a Nobel Peace Prize. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

Alliance to Liberate Scotland Is Officially Registered
After a long battle, the Alliance to Liberate Scotland has now been officially registered with the Electoral Commission. This is a political breakthrough that even some within Scotland’s own political class, worked desperately to prevent.

"The Israel lobby exerts control not only over Westminster, which we knew, but also over its Holyrood mini-me.
I’d add that jewish zionists also control our media, including The National, purportedly Scotland’s only independence-supporting newspaper."

'Nice to be free': Palestinian brewer visits Glasgow to launch beer

A Palestinian brewer has visited Scotland to launch a lager brewed in partnership with a Scottish company

Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.

Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.

We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.

Labour letting the Waspi women die in poverty is just business for my local Labour MP, the BBC and BBC Scotland, as they shield Sarwar By Professor John Robertson OBA, former Faculty Research Ethics Chair, UWS In the Guardian today: Campaigners have threatened the government with legal action unless it reconsiders i…

Reposted as Labour panic leads them to try, with vague unconvincing promises, to stop Waspi women voting SNP:
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There would be many out of a job and facing jail time if we had the same rules.
But what is good for the goose should be just as good for the gander. It should equally apply to the SNP & the Green party.
#EndLondonRule #AreYouYesYet #WhyNotScotland

Palestinians in Gaza systematically subjected to horrific rape and sexual abuse by Israelis, reveals report "I wished for death every moment."

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has published another report containing utterly horrifying testimonies of gang rapes and sodomisation of Palestinian men and women abducted from Gaza and detained in various Israeli dungeons.

Research – the safest place by far to bury high-level nuclear waste is in the deep clay beds of the South-East around London The location of Mullwharchar, the granite Scottish mountain where it was first planned to bury high-level nuclear waste in 1980 among the hard igneous rocks of the North of Britain and where succes…

"...northern igneous/granite locations are actually less safe than deep clay beds."

Is Spotify running ICE recruitment ads? Here are the facts The advertising "is part of a broad campaign the US government is running" across various platforms — not just Spotify, a spokesperson told Snopes.

Cancel SPOTIFY.

They are running ICE ads.

F them.

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In totally shocking news that nobody saw coming that is a complete coincidence… Andrew Peodo is named in the new #Epstein files on #Epstein’s flight logs, less than 24 hours after giving pretense of giving up his titles.
How very honorable of Andrew and king.... 🤔
#RoyalScandals #NotMyRoyalFamily

Telegraph, Mail, Express, Jeremy Clarkson etc, please stop saying nasty things about Zack Polanski; the Green Party membership system is struggling to keep up

Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

Just imagine........

Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans: lies, smears - and the truth Tel Aviv's police ban the city's derby after Maccabi hooligans rioted. You cannot make this sh*t up.

Those backing the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans visiting Birmingham were smeared as antisemites.

Then Tel Aviv police banned the city's derby after riots.

This whole saga is defined by lies and smears.

Here's the truth 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/maccabi-te...

A tale of two chants: Why Starmer now casts even the British police as antisemitic Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting 'Death to the IDF!' Four months on, he's bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!'

Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting 'Death to the IDF!' Four months on, he's bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!'

Read my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

Not one of these statements has happened and in most cases the opposite has happened.

Lisa Nandy: Maccabi fans 'reprehensible' – but must be allowed into Birmingham

A Labour minister has admitted that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans barred from going to a football match in England are 'reprehensible' – after pledging that their attendance would be ensured by the Government

The Architecture of Complicity: Understanding Third State Responsibility in Gaza Genocide - 21st Century Wire 21WIRE | When third states cross the threshold from passive observation to active complicity.

"According to a new report on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, the ongoing genocide in Gaza represents a collective crime, perpetuated by the complicity of powerful Third States that have allowed Israel to commit long-standing systemic violations of international law."

Scottish customers are being ripped off by the UK energy system

"Here is how the UK electricity (and energy) market works including a hugely unfair policy called marginal pricing which is why gas prices drive up all electricity prices, even when in Scotland all of our generation needs are met from low-cost renewables."

Homeless deaths in Scotland fall as they climb in other parts due to lack of national leadership Professor John Robertson OBA Once again, I’m grateful to Brenda Robb for finding this and researching it for us. From BBC UK today but ignored by BBC Scotland, the above and: The figures show…

1,142 deaths were in England, an increase of 16% on the year before.
In Northern Ireland, deaths increased by more than a third between 2023 and 2024; Wales saw a small annual decrease.
In Scotland there was an 18% reduction overall. Deaths in both Glasgow and Edinburgh fell by around 40%.

England’s War Violations A group of Palestinians has served a legal petition asking the UK to take responsibility for what they call “serial international law violations”, including war crimes committed during the British …

A group of Palestinians has served a legal petition asking the UK to take responsibility for what they call “serial international law violations”, including war crimes committed during the British occupation of Palestine from 1917 to 1948, the consequences of which it says still reverberate today.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Hyper-Normalisation and the Criminalistion of Protest The UK government is planning to clamp down even harder on peaceful protest against the genocide in Gaza. Given their support of the Israel — through the supply of weapons parts, troop training and…

Watching elderly & disabled people dragged into the back of police vans for holding up signs is becoming a weekly occurrence. The criminalisation of protest is pushing more and more people to break the law. And once you’ve broken one law, you're likely to start questioning the legitimacy of others.

Most Americans oppose Syria strike, says latest Washington Post-ABC poll - 21st Century Wire POST + ABC | It looks like more chemical weapons propaganda is needed from the mainstream media.

"Instead of holding Israel accountable and pursuing legal action against its leaders, and sanctioning Israel economically and politically, the initiative by .
most Western nations could be seen as diverting attention from the crisis to an imaginary future somewhere in the distance."

Staggering Hypocrisy - Craig Murray The outgoing Head of MI6 Richard Moore has formally admitted in a public speech in Istanbul that MI6 has been cooperating with HTS in Syria – a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act – for ye...

"The government is arresting little old ladies for holding signs supporting one proscribed organisation, Palestine Action, while it admits it has been actively supporting another proscribed organisation."